At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 57, Danger of Mutiny

Just as Zhou Zhang continued to patrol the city defense, he heard someone cheering not far away. He was afraid of a mutiny, so he ran over immediately, only to find that it was Chen Lin and Wu Sheng dancing and cheering.

Zhou Zhang quickly rushed to the two of them and asked, "Is there any news about the lord?"

Wu Sheng laughed loudly and said: "Yesterday the general annihilated the Qin army's baggage team, captured more than 200 Qin soldiers, and seized 3000 shi of grain and grass. The Qin army is about to run out of food, and they can't be arrogant for long."

After hearing the good news, Zhou Zhang also said excitedly: "My lord is indeed a born famous general. Every move of the Qin army is in my lord's calculations."

Then he asked: "My lord, did you tell me our next strategy?"

Wu Sheng was stunned for a moment, but quickly brought the ranger who reported the news to Zhou Zhang and told the ranger what he had just asked.

The ranger said: "The general said that all the leaders should guard the county. Now is the most dangerous time for the Qin army to fight against the trapped beasts."

When Zhou Zhang heard this, he suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, yes, our county has the most food now. We have more than 100,000 shi of food. The Qin army jumped over the wall in a hurry. Maybe they really want to break through the county to solve the crisis. We are here now." should be more cautious.

When Chen Lin heard this, he said with a cold face: "Qin dogs can't be arrogant for a few days. It would be better if they dare to continue attacking Xi County. When their army has no food, they can't run away even if they want to. Now our rebel army must not only guard against the Qin army" We need to be prepared for them to escape now. If the Qin army leaves now, our efforts will be in vain."

Chen Lin still has the idea of ​​occupying the entire Chen County, and if he wants to complete this idea, the tens of thousands of Qin soldiers in Chen County are obviously the biggest obstacle.

Zhou Zhang laughed and said: "It is impossible for the commander of the Qin Army to leave now. If he leaves now, the Xianyang court will know about our rebel uprising in Chen County, and the county guards and county lieutenants of Chen County will be arrested." He went to Xianyang for trial, so even if Bai Meng saved the tens of thousands of troops, he and the county governor could not save their lives, so even if there was a one in 10,000 possibility, Bai Meng of the Qin Army would find a way to capture Xi County , destroy our rebels."

Wu Sheng said: "In other words, in the next few days, the Qin army will attack Xixian County more fiercely?"

Zhou Zhang nodded and said: "For the Qin Army coach, this is the only way to survive, so we have to guard these few days. As long as we can withstand the last wave of Qin Army's attack, the entire Chen County will belong to our rebels."

Realizing that the war would become more intense in the next few days, Zhou Zhang and the others inspected the city defenses more carefully. They ordered Big Hammer to speed up the making of long arrows, repair weapons, pile up more stones, sleepers and other defensive weapons on the city walls, and also collect funds from the families of the rebels. Recruit 2000 soldiers as reserves to deal with the most dangerous times.

Bai Meng's method of dealing with the food shortage crisis is similar to what Zhou Zhang said. It is impossible to retreat. As long as they retreat, they will die.

On the one hand, Bai Meng asked Chen County, Ruyin County, and Xincai County for food and grass, thinking that as long as a batch of food and grass arrived at the front line, the Qin army's food shortage crisis could be relieved.

On the other hand, Bai Meng not only ignored the casualties of prisoners and civilians this time (because in his opinion, the more dead people, the less food will be consumed, and the army can hold on longer.) He even ignored the Qin army. The casualties were not taken into consideration.

He divided the army into teams of a thousand men, and attacked in turns in a roller-like manner. A different team of soldiers attacked every hour, and they did not hesitate to do so. The Qin army drove directly behind the prisoners, even if the prisoners could not bear the casualties and rushed to the rear. They fled for their lives, but this time the Qin army did not let them retreat first. Instead, they used swords and bows and arrows to drive the prisoners back to the city wall of Xixian County, letting them fight against the rebels. The Qin army completely ignored the prisoners and civilians. of casualties. Therefore, the attack this time was extremely fierce. The Qin army rushed to the wall of Xixian County several times. At such critical moments, Zhou Zhang personally led his troops to block it.

Both sides were furious, shooting with crossbows, chopping with swords and axes, stabbing with spears, even hitting with fists, biting teeth, pinching with both hands, any method that could kill the enemy was used. The Qin army prisoners were already forced to fight. Crazy, they bit the rebels like wild beasts, but the rebels knew the situation of the Qin army and burst out with strong fighting power with the hope of victory.

They knew that they were on the winning side. As long as they withstood the enemy's last attack, it would be their turn to kill the Qin army.

Both sides had reasons to win. You can imagine how brutal the battle was. Both sides suffered casualties of thousands of soldiers almost every day. The blood of soldiers on both sides dyed the entire Xixian city wall red.

After the failure of the last attack on Xixian County, this time even the Qin army did not obey the command and fled to the rear. It was obvious that the morale of the Qin army had reached the limit. Bai Meng had no choice but to issue the order to withdraw his troops. He knew that he The chance to capture the city has been lost.

After three days of fierce attack, almost all the prisoners were killed, and most of the civilian husbands were also killed, so that the civilian husbands who wanted to survive escaped from the military camp every day. At the beginning, Bai Meng even asked the Qin army to closely guard the civilian husbands. He wanted to use this method. The method was used to suppress the escape of civilians and at the same time drive them to the battlefield.

But on the second day, this method was useless. The tragic casualties forced the Qin army to start filling the life-devouring hole. Most of the Qin army were natives of Chen County, so they allowed their own people to fight against their own people. , it is something that hurts morale, but now the soldiers have to sacrifice their lives. These Qin soldiers are not old Qin people. They have not received favors from the Qin State. They have also received the benefits of military merit and land transfer. Naturally, these soldiers cannot He fought to the death for Qin.

So Bai Meng discovered that in his camp, soldiers actually escaped together with the civilians. Almost all the civilians escaped. The soldiers in the county would also escape if they were not careful. These soldiers were locals. As long as they escaped from the camp, they could After easily escaping home, the soldiers discovered that the danger of death exceeded Qin Fa. For them, escape was the only option.

Moreover, many fleeing soldiers thought that it was not safe to escape home, so they simply turned their heads and joined the rebels. So Xu Fan, who was in the wild, inexplicably accepted hundreds of deserters from the Qin State. They were all locals of Chen County and were very interested in the rebels. recognition is higher.

The Qin army is now on the verge of mutiny. Bai Meng can only rely on hundreds of Guanzhong veterans to suppress the camp with only more than 5000 people left. However, he can barely maintain the stability of the army. Attacking the city again is It's impossible. If he drives his soldiers to attack the city again, the army will definitely mutiny.

　Qin II was considered a standard foolish king, but did he do anything that harmed the country and the people?
  　　He just killed all his brothers, almost wiped out all nine of his clans, and brutally killed some loyal people, but the harm was only caused by the upper class, and it had nothing to do with the people at the bottom.

　　He did not build the Grand Canal, nor did he lead a million-strong army on an expedition. In the end, he returned with a huge defeat.

　　He just maintained his Lao Tzu's policy. According to Confucian standards, three years of neglecting his father's duties can be called filial piety.

　　As a result, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled in the second year after he ascended the throne, and then invaded Guanzhong. In the third year, he himself was killed, and the Qin Dynasty was also destroyed by Liu Bang.

　　Compared with the family fortune left by Yang Jian, which took more than ten years to be destroyed by Yang Guang, the First Emperor really left no family fortune at all, leaving only enemies in the world.

　　
  　
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